Great Britain and the United States accused Russia of hacker attacks on the Olympic Games Only this was not enough in a set of potentially sanctions-two weeks before the US elections, the United Kingdom accused Russian military intelligence of preparing hacker attacks for the summer Olympics in Tokyo 2020, which was not due to the pandemic, and in attacks on the Winter Olympics in the South Korean Pyeongchang in 2018.

Russian military intelligence was preparing hack attacks on the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which were supposed to be held in Tokyo this summer, but were postponed due to the pandemic, the UK's National Cyber ​​Security Center said following a joint investigation with US intelligence agencies. British authorities are 95% certain that the attacks on the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics and the planned attacks on the Tokyo Summer Games were carried out by GRU unit 74455, reports The Guardian.

The European Commission may start legal proceedings in connection with the program for the issuance of Malta citizenship in exchange for investment, the Times of Malta newspaper writes , citing sources. According to the publication, members of the commission are discussing the possibility of sending the government of Malta an official notice of violation of EU rules. This is the first stage of preparation for litigation at the interstate level.

US oil giant ConocoPhillips has agreed to buy rival Concho Resources for $9.7 billion, one of the largest mergers in US shale oil production since the collapse in energy demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Bloomberg: $40 oil helps overcome the past apathy towards M&A deals in the sector.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in separate interviews with TASS, expressed their readiness to come to Moscow for joint talks on Nagorno-Karabakh. According to Pashinyan, Armenia's position is that the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh should be resolved exclusively by peaceful means, while Azerbaijan does not agree with this.

Statistics provided by IATA and a study by the US Department of Defense, indicating the practical impossibility of contracting a coronavirus in the cabin of an aircraft if basic precautions are observed, underestimate the threat, Reuters writes , citing expert opinion. According to infectious disease specialist David Friedman, the IATA calculation is misleading, although it was based on the work of the scientist himself.

Nestle Russia LLC faces a fine of 300 thousand rubles for violating the decree of Mayor Sobyanin on the mandatory transfer of at least 30% of employees to remote work, TASS writes with reference to Yury Gusakov, Chief Inspector of the Association of Administrative and Technical Inspections (OATI). According to Gusakov, OATI revealed a violation, for which a fine is provided, in the course of monitoring the information provided by the company.

Australian plant-based meat startup V2Food has completed a $55 million Series B funding round . In investment round B, in addition to Goldman Sachs and the British funds Altitude Partners and Novel Investments, large Asian investors participated. Among them are the state-owned investment bank Temasek Holdings and the private equity firm ABC World Asia from Singapore, as well as the food manufacturer Esenagro and the investment fund Huaxing Growth Capital from China.

The total cost of anti-crisis measures in Russia amounted to 5-6% of GDP, said Oksana Tarasenko, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, . In the spring, the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, estimated the state support needed for the economy at 7% of GDP. “The measures taken are unprecedented. The total weight of financial and various measures, according to estimates, turned out to be 5–6% of GDP.

For the first time in at least 10 years, the French have come out on top among foreign buyers of luxury real estate in London, Bloomberg writes , citing data from the Knight Frank brokerage agency. Over the past few years, buyers from China have been leading the market. In the first 9 months of this year, French citizens accounted for 11% of all luxury real estate sales to foreigners in the British capital.

Finnish Nokia has received a contract from NASA to create a cellular network on the moon. The main feature of this contract is that the US space agency acts only as a customer: private companies must deliver the payload to the natural satellite. In order to prepare for the return to the Moon, NASA distributed . The contract for $14.1 million was given to division of Nokia Bell Labs.

Japan will join forces with the US and Europe in an antitrust fight against the Big Four tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon (GAFA) — the largest US IT companies that are accused of anti-competitive behavior. Japan's newly appointed Fair Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Kazuyuki Furuya said that Tokyo would pay attention and investigate any major deals or mergers as needed.

Former Vedomosti journalists have launched a new project - a service for checking information on the Internet for authenticity Fakecheck.ru. It will accept third party orders. Fakecheck.ru was founded by the former chief editor of the Vedomosti website, Maxim Tovkaylo, and the former editor of the newspaper's finance department, Dmitry Kazmin.

The tie-up between Yandex – the so-called ‘Russian Google’ – and Tinkoff, one of the country’s biggest privately-owned banks, looked to be a match made in heaven. But this week it was all over - less than a month after the initial announcement. The bank said Friday that talks had broken down. Later, Oleg Tinkov, the bank’s founder, and Yandex managing director Tigran Khudaverdyan traded accusations in letters to employees. The Bell pieced together what happened.

The number of cases of infection with COVID-19 today exceeded 40 million, the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, writes Bloomberg. At the beginning of the pandemic, it took the world six months to reach the first 10 million infected, but subsequent milestones were reached more and more quickly, and the last 10 million were added in just 32 days. On Friday, global cases reached an all-time high of over 415,000. The US, India and Brazil accounted for more than half of the cases.